WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressional lawmakers take center stage Thursday afternoon in Day 3 of the NCAA’s virtual convention, “pulling no punches” in a discussion with NCAA officials about its failures to modernize rules governing college athletes.
Sens. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), two high-ranking legislators at the center of Congress’s involvement in college sports, express their frustration with the NCAA in a nearly hour-long prerecorded discussion with CEO Donald Remy. The video will be featured during an NCAA education session Thursday afternoon as part of the governing body’s annual convention. The convention was scheduled, coincidentally, for Washington before COVID-19 concerns made an in-person event untenable.